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Nikola Tesla1856–1943

Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

Nikola Tesla on science

“Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World” in Modern Mechanics and Inventions (July 1934)

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Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
“A Visit to Nikola Tesla” by Dragislav L. Petković, Politika (April 1927)
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Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
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Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.
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